In Europe trains are subsidized by taxes because they are for the common good.

Here, we believe trains should somehow be self-supporting, even while we use taxes to build highways and air terminals, and help out the airlines. But we just can't bring ourselves to pull the $ together necessary for a really good rail system, either within most cities or between them.

To be more fair, cities are more spread out here than in Europe, making the same services more expensive.

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